{"id":8137,"date":"2018-03-16T16:40:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=2985087"},"modified":"2018-03-16T16:40:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:40:52","slug":"weld-county-busts-major-marijuana-smuggling-ring-arrests-8-seizes-3000-plants-and-450-pounds-of-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/weld-county-busts-major-marijuana-smuggling-ring-arrests-8-seizes-3000-plants-and-450-pounds-of-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Weld County busts major marijuana smuggling ring; arrests 8, seizes 3,000 plants and 450 pounds of pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/weld-county-busts-major-marijuana-smuggling-ring-arrests-8-seizes-3000-plants-and-450-pounds-of-pot\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Mar 16, 2018, 11:28 am \u2022 Updated: Mar 16, 2018, 1:43 pm <span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>Tommy Simmons<\/strong>, <em> The Greeley Tribune<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Weld County Drug Task Force has arrested eight people for their suspected involvement in a large <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/06\/28\/denver-marijuana-trafficking-ring-bust\/82592\/\">marijuana smuggling ring<\/a> operating in Greeley, Windsor and Frederick.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Steve Black of the Greeley Police Department, who leads the task force, said the arrests came as officers served six warrants \u2014 four in Greeley, one in Windsor and one in Frederick.<\/p>\n<p>During their raids, officers found 3,313 plants and about 460 pounds of finished marijuana. Police estimate the plants are worth about $5 million while the finished drug is valued at $736,000, but Black estimated a pound of marijuana could sell for a price four times higher on the East Coast.\u00a0Task force members believe the marijuana was primarily sold on the East Coast, but some likely was sold in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe the drug organization\u2019s members rented multiple houses in residential neighborhoods throughout Weld County to use as grow houses. Black confirmed the investigation is ongoing and said it is complicated because detectives may have to determine if homeowners were complicit in the illegal operations.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com\/news\/crime\/more-than-3000-plants-and-450-pounds-of-marijuana-confiscated-as-weld-police-make-four-more-arrests-in-connection-with-smuggling-ring\/\">GreeleyTribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101559\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/weld-county-busts-major-marijuana-smuggling-ring-arrests-8-seizes-3000-plants-and-450-pounds-of-pot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1032\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From top left: Gao Gong, Rong Ye, Hua Lin, Zhqiang Zhou, Xin Chen, and Jui Lin. (Photos provided by Weld County Drug Task Force)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#013; &#013; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weld County Drug Task Force has arrested eight people for their suspected involvement in a large marijuana smuggling ring operating in Greeley, Windsor and Frederick. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6812,6813,77,6814,6815,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6817,6818,2655,6819,6820,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}